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Transportation Letters

Maney Publishing · United Kingdom · Est. 2009

ISSN1942-7867eISSN1942-7875

SJR Q2✓ WOS SCIE✓ WOS SSCI✓ Scopus / SJR

Impact Factor & Quartile · Web of Science (JCR)

✓ Indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE · SSCI) — Clarivate publishes an official Journal Impact Factor and JCR quartile for this journal.

See the official Impact Factor & quartile on the journal’s page ↗

The Impact Factor & JCR quartile are licensed by Clarivate — we link you to the official source instead of reprinting a number that can go out of date. Open metrics below: SCImago Q2. Source: Clarivate Journal Citation Reports.

📊 Standing in its field

Where this journal ranks among others in the same subject area.

SJR · Scopus

Top 50% in field

Clarivate’s JCR quartile is a separate ranking and may differ

SJR Scorei

0.873

H-Indexi

SNIPi

1.643

Total Worksi

964

Total Citationsi

15,003

2yr Mean Citednessi

2.33

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope✦ Compiled from public sources

Transportation Letters publishes research on traffic engineering, travel behavior, modeling and simulation, and freight and logistics. The journal also covers the impact of events like COVID on transportation systems.

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General Information

Country / RegionUnited Kingdom

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published2009

Annual Volume~ 89 articles / year

StatusActive (last: 2026)

Total Publications964

Publisher OrgTaylor & Francis

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Submission Info

Peer Review—

OA License—

OA Rate—

Ethics & Quality

COPE Member✗ No

OASPA Member✗ No

Not on Predatory Lists✓ Yes

Think.Check.Submit Compliance

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6/11 · 55%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

Maney Publishing

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

1942-7867 / 1942-7875

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Indexed in a trusted database?

WoS, Scopus

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Peer review process documented?

N/A

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Follows ethical publishing standards (COPE)?

N/A

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Not on predatory/blacklists?

✓ Clean

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Long-term digital preservation?

N/A

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Plagiarism detection in place?

N/A

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Listed in DOAJ (verified OA)?

N/A

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Primary language documented?

English

A twelfth criterion — whether APC fees are clearly disclosed — is not scored here; it is left out of the total rather than counted as a failure. Publication charges appear in the metrics card above.

Based on the Think.Check.Submit framework by DOAJ, COPE & OASPA. All data from verified open sources.

Publication & Citation Trend

Articles published

Citations received

1.4k

2019

1.7k

2020

1.9k

2021

1.6k

2022

932

2023

616

2024

171

2025

106

2026

Source: OpenAlex · Each year’s green bar = citations earned by that year’s papers, counted to date — so recent years look lower simply because their papers haven’t had time to be cited yet.

SJR Quartile by Discipline

Scimago ranks this journal separately in each subject category — its quartile can differ by discipline.

TransportationQ2

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

TransportationTransportation Science & Technology

Scopus Categories

Transportation

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Transportation Planning and OptimizationUrban Transport and AccessibilityTraffic control and managementTraffic and Road SafetyTransportation and Mobility InnovationsTraffic Prediction and Management TechniquesUrban and Freight Transport LogisticsEconomic and Environmental ValuationVehicle Routing Optimization MethodsHuman Mobility and Location-Based Analysis

Frequently asked questions about Transportation Letters

Is Transportation Letters a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Transportation Letters: it is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus, and is not on DOAJ's withdrawn list. Indexing is a transparency signal, not a guarantee — always confirm fit and policies before submitting.

What is the impact factor of Transportation Letters?

Transportation Letters is indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection, so Clarivate publishes an official Journal Impact Factor for it (since the 2023 Journal Citation Reports, every Core Collection journal — including Arts & Humanities and Emerging Sources titles — receives one). PubScope links to Clarivate's official source rather than reprinting the number, which can be out of date. Its open 2-year mean citedness is 2.33.

Is Transportation Letters indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Transportation Letters is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus.